Imaging of acquired cystic dise ...
The preoperative assessment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) complicated with acquired renal cystic disease in a 63-year-old male patient on long-term ...
Rituximab in the treatment of a ...
A 31-year-old woman with nephronophthisis received a cadaveric kidney transplant, and was immunosuppressed with cyclosporine, azathioprine and stero ...
Clinical remission of Henoch–Sc ...
We herein describe an adult male patient who presented with tonsillitis, purpura, hematuria, and proteinuria. The serological analyses revealed elev ...
Successful steroid treatment of ...
The patient was a 54-year-old woman with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) who developed complicating systemic sarcoidosis. Hyper ...
A rare case of malignant-phase ...
Malignant-phase hypertension is characterized clinically by severe accelerating hypertension with neuroretinopathy or papilledema and by evidence of ...
The effects of raloxifene on bo ...
Background Bone disease is caused not only by increased bone turnover accompanying secondary hyperparathyroidism but also by factors such as bone me ...
A case report of retroaortic le ...
A 75-year-old woman was referred to our department for evaluation of a left renal tumor. Computed tomography and other imaging studies demonstrated ...
A case presenting with rapid re ...
A 69-year-old man was referred to our hospital for severe anemia. The atypical lymphocyte count, including granular lymphocytes, was 2,750/lL. Lymph ...
Effect of anemia on cardiac dis ...
Introduction Anemia is a common complication of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), which not only lowers their quality of life but also pot ...
Successful treatment of acute p ...
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) has the best prognosis among acute leukemias, but there is little data about APL in patients on hemodialysis. A 6 ...
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in ...
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) is a rare but fatal complication in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We describe a case of a 74-y ...
Resistive index predicts renal ...
Background While the clinical validity of Doppler ultrasonography in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is still controversial, we have shown in a 2-year ...
A case of slowly progressive sc ...
A rapidly progressive renal deterioration accompanied by acute-onset/uncontrolled hypertension characterizes scleroderma renal crisis (SRC), a life- ...
Steroid treatment in patients w ...
Although the clinical benefits of antiviral treatment in the management of membranous nephropathy (MN) in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (H ...
Hereditary renal tubular disord ...
Background The Turkish Renal Tubular Disorders Working Group aimed to form a patient registry database and gathered demographic, clinical, and labor ...
Corticosteroid treatment of kid ...
Familial lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) deficiency (FLD) is a rare genetic disorder of lipid metabolism, characterised by low plasma HD ...
Clinical improvement of membran ...
A-52-year-old man presented to our hospital with nephrotic syndrome caused by membranous nephropathy. Early gastric adenocarcinoma confined to the s ...
Doubling of serum creatinine: i ...
Background The evaluation of the progression of renal insufficiency, or decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), has been approached more simply ...
Association between plasma homo ...
Background Microalbuminuria and plasma homocysteine levels are both considered to be markers of endothelial dysfunction and shown to be predictors o ...
A Japanese case of proteinase 3 ...
A 74-year-old male without recent medical treatment visited our hospital complaining of fever and lack of appetite. Upon examination severe azotemia ...
An autopsy-proven case of myelo ...
An 80-year-old woman positive for myeloperoxidase- antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (MPOANCA) was admitted with a 3-month history of fever, gene ...
Membranoproliferative pattern o ...
Background Arg95Stop mutation of exon 4 in complement component 9 (C9) gene is common in individuals in Japan with C9 deficiency (C9D); however, und ...
A case of femoral hemorrhage in ...
We present the case of a 67-year-old female with femoral hemorrhage accompanied by microscopic polyangiitis. She was admitted to our hospital with sym ...
Children with posterior reversi ...
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a reversible, predominantly posterior, leukoencephalopathy associated with renal insufficienc ...
Renoprotective effects of clari ...
Background Recent studies have shown the involvement of microinflammation in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. We previously demonstrated th ...